Recent content by DieselPete

That's a fair question, for sure. But is it a reach to use Fargo to predict One Pocket, when One Pocket is not a game that can be used to create a Fargo rating?

I know the correct answer at this level of pool is, "It is the player's job to know," but I swear with these new balls if I saw my opponent lining up at the wrong ball I would want to say something before they shoot. I would have to overcome the urge to be a good sportsman, or whatever.

Got bored and wanted to look back at the payout compared to the costs to buy each player. Evan Lunda $130k/20k (+$110k) Fedor Gorst $65/$46 (+$19k) Justin Hall $40/$17 (+23k) Tony Chohan $28/$33 (-$5k) Roland Garcia $17/$16 (+$1k) Mark Magi $17/$4,500 (+$12,500) Sky Woodward $11,800/$23...

I tried to view the bracket by clicking on the link in the story from the front page of this website, and it says that I have to log in to the see the bracket. Is it just me or is that ridiculous? Why would I need an account to see the bracket (even if that only means they want my email...

I didn't deduce anything conclusively, and it isn't my job to get to the bottom of whether they did this before. I literally wrote "you decide." I think you could decide that they did this many times. I think you could decide that they are rookie cheaters, hashing out a new scam. They don't...

Does it? These are the last guys that I am going to defend about anything, but do the texts read like "worked before, let's do it again" or like they hatched a new plan? You decide, I guess.

To create a handle that would be worth the effort, the casinos would have to offer games on the wire (a point spread, in effect) and an over/under on total games in a match. They could even offer micro betting on who will win the lag, who will win the first rack, who will commit the first foul...

Agreed. Nobody is heading for the prosecutor's office with this evidence. From a legal perspective, for good or for bad, there will be no "there" there.

That's fine. I don't disagree. In my first post on this I wrote that it could be from a dropdown in which you select "last 100" or 200, or 500. But for the record, I am generally fine with Fargo as it is, even though in cases like Nick Varner (the subject of this thread) it clearly is holding...

In long sets and under great pressure, the loser is often the player that turns the table over to the opponent on missed shots. The winner is often the player that turns the table over on safeties (which includes shots that intentionally create distance and leave only banks, even if the object...

Really? I'm not a big gambler, so this isn't really my department, but if I had to watch someone play and make a judgment, or live in a world in which you can say, "He's a 609, and counting his 'last 100 games only' he is a 632," I know which I would pick. I'll take data every day. I would only...

I'll check it out. By "lifetime" Fargo rating I simply meant, "Fargo rating as it is currently presented," but to underscore that if a subset of recent games could be presented (last 200 games, for example) that would be not representative of play over that person's total data set.

Me too.

I think that is a great idea. I'll go one more step... Consider: I look someone up on the Fargo app. Once I find them, it automatically shows their "lifetime" Fargo rating. But I also can select from a dropdown menu that shows their rating only considering their last 100, 250, 500, etc. games...

Main Event Prize Breakdown Champion$10,000 Runner-Up$5,000 Semi-Finalists$2,400 each Quarter-Finalists$1,200 each Last 16$600 each Last 32$300 each Second Chance Event Prize Breakdown Champion$1,000 Runner-Up$500 Semi-Finalists$250 each Quarter-Finalists$125 each